By Yasmin Tadjdeh
April 2015
Tweets ISIL fighter Mark Taylor sent in October revealing his exact coordinates.
When Mark Taylor, a New Zealander who left his country to fight for the Islamic State, tweeted some musings in the fall of 2014, he did not realize he was giving away his exact location in Syria. Once realizing his error, he deleted 45 geotagged tweets, but not before intelligence groups had seen them.
Governments and groups across the globe are using these slip-ups, and other pieces of information gleaned from the internet, to gain a better understanding of what terror organizations, such as the Islamic State, may be planning.
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